Pierre Cuq
After having been trained at the Rennes Conservatory of Dramatic Arts (Professional Orientation Cycle), under the direction of Daniel Dupont (obtaining the Diploma in Theatrical Studies in 2010), Pierre Cuq joined the 72nd class of ENSATT (Ecole National Superior of Theater Arts and Techniques). During his training, he worked with Frank Vercruyssen (tgSTAN), Guillaume Lévêque, Anne Théron, Laurence Roy, Philippe Delaigue, Frédéric Fonteyne, Ariane Mnouchkine, Agnès Dewitte, Eloi Recoing, Enzo Cormann, Marie Payen, Olivier Maurin, Claire Lasne-Darceuil , Pierre-Alain Chapuis, André Markowicz…
At ENSATT he played Lance Fredricksen for Anne Théron in the play by C. Pellet Loin de Corpus Christi, then the prosecutor Edward Carson for Frank Vercruyssen in Indecencies, after O. Wilde and M. Kaufman, and finally for Philippe Delaigue in Le Grand Ensemble, a traveling creation of 16 pieces on the crisis and the city.
In the theatre, he plays and sings under the direction of Daniel Dupont (La Trahison Orale, by M. Kagel, La Decision, by B. Brecht, Opéra de Rennes), Vladimir Moràvek (Cirkus Havel, Villeneuve en Scène festival), Claire Lasne -Darceuil (For the Best, Les Nuits de l’Enclave festival) Philippe Baronnet (Le Monstre du Couloir, We Just Wanted You to Love us, Le Préau, Vire), Lucie Rébéré (CROSS, Comédie de Valence), Jean-Louis Benoit (Les Autres, Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg) and more recently Bob Wilson (Luther Dancing with the Gods, Berlin and Amalh and the Night Visitors, Watermill).
In the cinema, he works for Eleanor Coppola (Paris Can Wait, Elzevir Films) alongside Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin, but also Vania Leturcq (L’Année Prochaine, Offshore), Robert Guédiguian (Une Histoire de Fou, Rouge Production), Orso Miret (The Life of Beasts, Arte), Jérôme Cornuau (The Killer of the Lake, TF1) Jules Raillard (ON K’AIR) or even Jérémy Tran (Artificial Landscapes).
As a director, he created Le(s) Joueur(s) after N. Gogol and F. Dostoïevski in 2010, L’Enfant Froid by M. von Mayenburg in 2013 (co-directed with Sophie Engel ) and K after F. Kafka in 2014. In 2019 he created Villa Dolorosa by Rebekka Kricheldorf at Théâtre 13 for which he won the Prix Théâtre 13 / Young directors. In 2019 he commissioned the text Seuil from Marilyn Mattei on virility and the construction of the male model. The text is the winner of the CNL grant and the FADEL – Normandy Region scheme (creation 2021).
Passionate about contemporary writing, he is part of the collective À Mots Découvertes, the committee of young readers of the JTN and the label Jeunes Textes en Liberté and has dedicated the promotion of these writings to his company Les Grandes Marées based in Vire.
For the 21/22 season Pierre Cuq will play L’Aiglon d’E. Rostand, directed by Maryse Estier (Théâtre Montansier, Versaille), in We Just Wanted You to Love Us, by M. Mougel directed by Philippe Baronnet. He will also stage Rouge dents, a theater and dance commission from Pauline Peyrade on the feminine (creation spring 2022).
